Kunceyyc, Josaphat, Saint
Kunceyyc, Josaphat, Saint
Martyr , Archbishop of Polotsk, born Volodymyr, Lithuania, 1580; died Vitebsk, Russia, 1623. Of noble Ruthenian stock, he was educated in his native town. He entered the Basilian monastery of the Trinity at Vilna, was ordained priest, 1609 , and subsequently became superior in several monasteries, Bishop of Vitebsk (1617 ), and Archbishop of Polotsk (1618). He prayed constantly for the extinction of the Eastern Schism; and labored zealously for the union between Rome and the Greco-Slavic Church in Russia and Poland , and the political rights of the Ruthenian clergy. He was martyred in 1623. Emblems : crown, chalice, winged deacon. Relics at Polotsk. Feast , Roman Calendar, 14 November .